The position paper examines the effects of grazing on animal health, climate protection and biodiversity, among other things. The paper states that pasture-based livestock farming offers demonstrable benefits, such as lower disease rates, better animal welfare and positive effects on biodiversity and carbon sequestration.
However, the FBN believes that the implementation of pasture-based animal husbandry requires structural adjustments in agricultural funding as well as further research, particularly on the integration of modern technology, feed supply under climate change conditions and the management of rewetted areas. Training in agriculture and animal husbandry must also be strengthened.
‘Pasture farming is at the interface between animal welfare, environmental protection and climate protection,’ say the authors. ‘Its potential can only be fully utilised through systemic changes.’
See full version below (in German).
Contact for queries:
Sophie Blessinger
Officer for knowledge transfer
Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN)
blessinger@fbn-dummerstorf.de | +49 38208 68-5
